Priority Mail

We were surprised by Tino and the guys this week, via email, assuring us that our two care packages arrived safe and sound.  We had sent one package with cake, and party favors, as a delayed celebration for Ella's birthday.  The second box was full of canned goods, and such.  We learned that the food isn't top notch, and so they requested some good old stand-bys... so we sent off Linc's favorite - Spaghetti-o's, among other goodies.  We also sent some sling shots, (lol - why not?), and of course, more artwork!

I think this week, we will attempt to safely pack a jar of homemade strawberry jam, and see if it makes it there.  


Here is the latest correspondence we received from our Hero, Tino:

Once again our # 1 family made us all happy when we received your care packages. The day before we got your packages we were all talking about how good it would be to have some ice cream in this temperature (116). When we saw the Oreo cakesters, one devil dog said great minds think alike, because even though it's not ice cream it's close enough. We were all amazed by all the candies you guys sent, but then I remembered reading the blog from memorial day parade about all the candies the kids collected and Mike suggested sending it to us . As always we are very thankful for everything you guys send, but what really made the squad even happier was the Chef Boyardee , Campbell's, Tortilla, Tuna, and the Tortilla Stuffers. As I said before, in our new AO (area of operation) the food isn't all that great so when we saw these in the boxes we all had a big  smile. Its always a good feeling to taste some "real" food every now and then. You would be surprised by what a big impact the smallest things could have on us in a combat zone. Believe it or not, we blew up all the balloons and were running around hitting them back and forth having a good time. LL. Also, thumbs up to whoever idea it was to send the sling shots. Whenever we go on patrols, the kids use sling shots to hit us, so now we can put up a fair fight. Please the kids thank you for the drawings and Lexi's class for the GIGANTIC drawing they made us. SEMPER FIDELIS